User:Don Swartwout

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, in 1953. Educated at Kalamazoo College (BA, 1974) and the University of Michigan (PhD, mathematics, 1979). I am married, have three grown children, and live in Columbus, Ohio.

I don't have time to keep up with all the things I'm interested in, which include

• technical subjects
  • computer science, especially
    • distributed systems
    • distributed programming
    • requirements
    • web services
    • knowledge management, including Wiki
    • programming languages
    • other languages, including HTML, XML, UML
    • database
    • scientific computing
  • mathematics
  • physics
  • chemistry
• religion and philosophy
  • religion
  • theology
  • metaphysics
  • mysticism
• building a better life for as many people as possible
  • social justice
  • peace
• why people behave the way they do
  • psychology
  • sociology
  • political science
  • economics
  • history
• patterns of destructive individual and institutional behavior that I resist as best I can
  • racism
  • sexism
  • classism
  • homophobia

Please note that the presence of a topic on this list means that I'm interested in it, not that I claim to know something about it. I do know a little bit about a few things.

• I have worked in the software industry for about 30 years.
• I have taught distributed systems and software architecture at Franklin University.